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American Literature (2006) 78 (2): 413–415.
Published: 01 June 2006
...Joseph Helminski 2006 Canons by Consensus: Critical Trends and American Literary Anthologies . By Joseph Csicsila. Tuscaloosa: Univ. of Alabama Press. 2004. xx, 262 pp. $38.50. Books, Maps, and Politics: A Cultural History of the Library of Congress, 1783-1861 . By Carl...
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American Literature (2008) 80 (3): 627–629.
Published: 01 September 2008
... to have consequences
beyond themselves.
Thomas Augst declares in the introduction to Institutions of Reading that
libraries mediate not just our forays off the printed page but also the tensions
caused when such departures bring us into contact with other disciplines. The
history of the book...
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American Literature (2025) 97 (1): 121–153.
Published: 01 March 2025
... and African American children in acceptable modes of behavior and belief. To that end, they framed library protocols as indispensable American norms and carefully selected highlights of US history as a proudly shared legacy. But a neglected Children’s Services archive shows that some librarians were at odds...
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in Tales Told by Empty Sleeves: Disability, Mendicancy, and Civil War Life Writing
> American Literature
Published: 01 September 2022
Figure 1 David Gingry Jr., “The Empty Sleeve” and “The Wounded Soldier’s Appeal,” printed by McCrum and Dern, in Altoona, PA, circa 1865. The notes at the top of the poems indicate their price and relevant details of Gingry’s history. Source: the Library Company of Philadelphia
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in Hawthorne’s Distillery: Time and Temperance in “The Birth-Mark” And Other Tales
> American Literature
Published: 01 December 2016
Figure 2 Illustration from George B. Cheever’s The Dream; or, The True History of Deacon Giles’ Distillery and Deacon Jones’ Brewery ( 1848 ), originally published in 1835 as Inquire at Amos Giles’ Distillery . Made available by the Princeton University Library, Graphic Arts Collection.
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American Literature (2021) 93 (1): 160–162.
Published: 01 March 2021
... with Chicago’s “Freedom Square Library,” Frances considers the formation of individual “protest libraries” as well as the protest library as a general concept. The book situates “protest libraries” in a continuum of “US-specific library history” and international library narratives but also proves...
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American Literature (2000) 72 (3): 691–693.
Published: 01 September 2000
...
topic relevant to the Society’s library collections and programmatic scope
—American history and culture through 1876—is eligible for the twelve-
month stipend of $30,000. The deadline for applications, including letters...
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American Literature (2005) 77 (3): 665–667.
Published: 01 September 2005
... Studies, Hermon
Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography, D’Arcy McNickle Cen-
ter for American Indian History, and Dr. William M. Scholl Center for Family
and Community History. The conference, to be held 2–4 March 2006 at the
Newberry Library, will investigate the enduring significance...
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American Literature (2002) 74 (3): 703–704.
Published: 01 September 2002
... to relocate to Providence and be
in continuous residence at the Library for the entire term of the fellowship.
The John Carter Brown Library is an independently administered and
funded center for advanced research in history and the humanities located
at Brown University. The library’s holdings...
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American Literature (2006) 78 (4): 901.
Published: 01 December 2006
... administered and
funded center for advanced research in history and the humanities located
at Brown University. The library’s holdings are concentrated on the history
of the Western Hemisphere during the colonial period (c. 1492 to c. 1825).
Research proposed by fellowship applicants must be suited...
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American Literature (2001) 73 (3): 691–694.
Published: 01 September 2001
... is an independently administered and
funded center for advanced research in history and the humanities located
at Brown University. The library’s holdings are concentrated on the history
of the Western Hemisphere during the colonial period (ca. 1492 to ca. 1825).
Research proposed by fellowship applicants must...
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American Literature (2004) 76 (3): 637–638.
Published: 01 September 2004
... and be
in continuous residence at the Library for the entire term of the fellowship.
The John Carter Brown Library is an independently administered and
funded center for advanced research in history and the humanities located
at Brown University. The library’s holdings are concentrated on the history...
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American Literature (2015) 87 (3): 433–454.
Published: 01 September 2015
.... 16572.Q . Library Company of Philadelphia . Hall James . 1929 . The Western Souvenir: A Christmas and New Year's Gift . Cincinnati, OH : N. and G. Guilford . Havens Earle . 2001 . Commonplace Books: A History of Manuscripts and Printed Books from Antiquity to the Twentieth...
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American Literature (2010) 82 (3): 671.
Published: 01 September 2010
... of the Library. The
Library’s collection is focused on the history of the Western Hemisphere dur-
ing the colonial period (1492 to ca. 1825). All fellows must relocate to Provi-
dence and be in continuous residence at the Library for the entire term of the
fellowship. Several fellowships are restricted...
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American Literature (2009) 81 (3): 657–658.
Published: 01 September 2009
...
The Library’s collection is focused on the history of the Western Hemi-
sphere during the colonial period (1492 to ca. 1825). Research proposals must
be suited to the holdings of the Library. All fellows must relocate to Provi-
dence and be in continuous residence at the Library for the entire term...
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American Literature (2001) 73 (4): 727–755.
Published: 01 December 2001
... such
as the NewYorkTimes—further evidence of Garrison’s desire to make
Realism and Advertising in Garrison’s Liberator 733
Fig. 1. Advertising page, National Era, 5 January 1854. Courtesy of Mudd Library, Oberlin College.
Photograph by John Seyfried.
the cause a commercial venture (see fig. 3...
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American Literature (2022) 94 (4): 651–676.
Published: 01 December 2022
... Jordan S. 2021 . Reading the Obscene: Transgressive Editors and the Class Politics of US Literature . Stanford, CA : Stanford Univ. Press . Cerf Bennett . 1968 . Interview with Robin Hawkins . Oral History Research Office, Columbia University Libraries . http://www.columbia.edu/cu...
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American Literature (2023) 95 (4): 671–699.
Published: 01 December 2023
... Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity . Durham, NC : Duke Univ. Press . Smith Helen . 2012 . “ ‘My Own Small Private Library’: USA Armed Services Editions and the Culture of Collecting .” In From Compositors to Collectors: Essays on Book-Trade History , edited by Hinks John...
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American Literature (2018) 90 (4): 753–784.
Published: 01 December 2018
..., the Newberry Library Seminar in Early American History and Culture, and the members of the Americanist Research Colloquium at UCLA (Ben Beck, Will Clark, Michael Cohen, Joe Dimuro, Carrie Hyde, Chris Looby, Karen Rowe, and Sam Sommers, among other brilliant interlocutors). Two anonymous readers at American...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (1): 1–31.
Published: 01 March 2020
... and philanthropist John Coakley Lettsom, who attended Carver on his deathbed, compiled and wrote Travels . Despite the presence of his manuscripts in the British Library and the almost immediate refutation by others, this version has stuck. See Bourne 1906 for a history of Carver plagiarism suspicions...
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